Bugging out of the city can kill you

Why we prep

Here's another reason why you – and your friends and family – should prep:

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German government urges citizens to stockpile food, water for first time since Cold War ended

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Actually, the title of this article is a little misleading. According to the German newspaper that reported the story: "The population will be obliged to hold an individual supply of food for ten days," and "People will be required to stockpile enough drinking water to last for five days. ..."

So the whole "urging" the citizens seems to be akin to "voluntary" taxes.

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Now personally, I am all about prepping (there's a surprise). But I'm sick and tired of governments that know what the problem is (Muslim military-grade "immigrants") but inflict "solutions" that don't address the problem.

What's the correct solution? Well let's try this on for size: Close the border to Muslim immigration and boot out all Muslim non-citizens. While that will leave some Muslim citizens still in-country, as soon as you go below the Islamic jihadi threshold, the Muslim-citizens will return to civilized western behavior.

However, I can see at least one benefit for requiring Germans to keep an adequate supply of food and drink in their homes: When the "migrants" break into their homes to pillage and rape, at least they won't (eventually) leave hungry.

Now that's hospitality.

Prepping isn't just storing food. It's also about being a port in the storm and a fortress defending freedom, liberty and personal responsibility.

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And that's one of the reasons we prep.

Last week we started talking about "bugging out." To paraphrase those immortal words from "Monty Python's Holy Grail: "When danger reared its ugly head, we bravely turned our tails and fled. ..."

Because that's what bugging out is: fleeing from a disaster so immediate and devastating that the alternative to running away is death and/or destruction. Bugging out is not a strategic retreat. It is not a clever reorganizing withdrawal. It's an admission that the situation where you are now is untenable.

But bugging out is only a temporary reprieve. It doesn't actually negate the real potential that you'll die. At best it only puts off the inevitable ... unless you have a plan that includes arriving at a predetermined place of safety.

Get that through your head because it's really important. You've just experienced a world-class meltdown. Assuming you even get out of an urban environment with your life, once you've gone through the three day's supply of food in your pack, once you've expended every bit of your physical and mental energy, once you're on your third sleepless night – unless you have an achievable destination ahead that provides you with at least a real chance of recharging your physiological batteries, you're screwed.

Happy thoughts, huh?

So let's start out with a more positive blueprint. Since bugging out is always a last resort, here's a list of urban conditions that should NOT initiate a bug-out in an emergency:

• You still have power and water. (Local or regional power generation is still working and people are still on the job. Water pumps are still humming. Essential infrastructure is still operating.)
• Power is out or water is out, but not both. (Even though your power is out, the municipal pumps still have power. Or if you have power but no water, eventually water delivery will be restored because power makes all things possible.)
• There is civil unrest in the streets. (Bunker up. Do not go out into the jungle. If you do plan to leave, do so in the early morning around sunrise. Most of the predators will be back in their lairs by then.)
• Your battery-powered radio (you DO have one, right?) still receives local or regional radio stations. This means even if you don't have power, the stations do. (Most larger stations have generators.) They will be able to provide you with the intel you need on the severity and extent of the event, and what the various governments are doing to mitigate the situation.
• The situation outside is more dangerous than what's going on inside. You don't bug out in a blizzard.

Now please note that the above is all about NOT "bugging out." We're not talking about self-evacuation, which is entirely different. Any or all reasons that cause you to feel uncomfortable about what's going on around you may be sufficient cause to self-evacuate.

So what's the difference between bugging out and self-evacuation?

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Well, those folks who got out of New Orleans five days before Katrina came ashore were self-evacuating. They loaded up their cars with important papers, valuable and sentimental treasures, pets and furnishings. They probably didn't take too much food (although they probably did load the liquor cabinet). They then sedately headed off to Aunt Martha's place in Tulsa. No blocked roads, plenty of open gas stations, lots of fast food along the way, and most importantly, a place to go – and because Aunt March knew they were coming – a welcome when they get there.

See? Full circle and we're back to this: if conditions are so dire and so widespread that you need to bug out, then you need to have a prepared destination ahead of you.

So how do you get a bug-out destination (BOD)?

Planning. You need to set this up ahead of time. Now would be good.

There are a lot of ways to set up a rural retreat outside of your urban home base. But making sure your retreat remains viable after you've arranged it requires more than just a casual agreement. You need to buy that safety with money or time (which is ultimately the same thing).

Let's take a look at some of the potential BODs:

• Your relative or friend's farm or country home
• A piece of rural property you purchase or rent
• A piece of property you and other like-minded city friends purchase or lease together
• A "bug-out" refugee arrangement your urban church makes with a sister rural church
• A refugee arrangement you've made with fellow fraternal organization members

Each of these options (and probably others, if you think about it) have either a high probability of failure or an equally high probability of success, depending entirely on your actions after you make the arrangement.

Let's say you approach your cousin Ned about coming to his country place in the event of a meltdown scenario. Since you brought it up over a pitcher (or two) of margaritas, Ned thinks it's a great idea. The next day, hung-over but happy, you head back to Metropolis. Three years later, due to a slight vector miscalculation, Superman drops a planetoid into Lake Erie, causing nuclear winter. You end up at Ned's place for the first time in three years, and you find out that Ned died two years ago and his wife didn't even know he had a cousin.

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There's an example of a high-probability failure. If you haven't bought it, you don't own it. So how could you buy into Ned's place? Once every couple of months or so, you should have been over at Ned's, helping to paint the barn or muck out the stables. You should have dropped off a couple of storage barrels of rice or a case of ammo with each visit. You might have shown up with a clean travel trailer (for your bug-out home) and offered it for Ned's use the next time he went duck hunting. Oh, and bringing Ned's wife a bouquet of flowers probably wouldn't hurt either.

Where are you gonna go?

In each of the above BOD options, the thing that will turn them from a failure to a success is time and money. Going to buy a BOD? Fine. But if you're not there to take care of it, to get to know your neighbors, to become recognized in the community … then don't be surprised that upon your arrival in a time of real trouble, you discover that there's been a rather expedient change of ownership.

We'll get a bit more into this in the next column. But remember this: until you know where you're going when the SHTF, there's no point in planning to make the trip. There's no reason to assemble a bug-out bag if you don't know your bug-out destination. If you don't have a bug-out destination, all city escape routes are the same ... and all of them suck.

No BOD=DOA.

So start thinking about that place in the country ... and get prepared.